Examples

In the confidence of victory, they boasted that the whole Turkish power must have yielded to their arms; but the admiral, or captain bashaw, found some consolation for a painful wound in his eye, by representing that accident as the cause of his defeat.

In the royal presence, the captain bashaw was extended on the ground by four slaves, and received one hundred strokes with a golden rod: 46 his death had been pronounced; and he adored the clemency of the sultan, who was satisfied with the milder punishment of confiscation and exile.

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in the English (I saw it in Moby-Dick and then there are the works cited below). OE says it's the earlier form.

ETA: I suspect -aw is a way of expressing the contrast in length that is inherent in that word in its original language; the unadorned 'a' is short whereas 'aw' is long (according to English orthography). not true; they're both long in the original Persian, which is pa:dʃa: in IPA. this word appears in Urdu as baadshah (king); -ah and -aw, therefore, both serve in English transliterations of long 'a'.

"'Not to know the odds between a halliard and a sheet, after all these years at sea: it passes human understanding,' said Jack.

"'You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw — do this, do that, gluppit the prawling strangles, there — no longer a social being at all. It is no doubt the effect of the long-continued habit of command; but it cannot be considered amiable.'

"Diana said nothing: she had a considerable experience and she knew that if men were to be at all tolerable they must be fed..."--Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War, p. 272